Buckle



AJuly 8 l, 1924..

S, K. REDDING ET AL BUCKLE Filed Sept. '7

Patented July 8, 1924.

. UNITED STATES 1,500,267 MTEZNTA OFFICE;

STANLEY x. REDDING, or BLUrrToN, AND oRvA VLANTIs, or viviartnnn,-iismLaNa i Bi'ToKLE.

YAppneation med september 7, 1922.V serial no. 586,628;l

To all whom t may concern: p

Be it known that STANLEY K. VREDDING and ORVA V. .LANTTs, citizens of the United States of America, residing, respectively, at Bluffton and Markle, in the counties of Wells andA Huntington and State of Indiana, have invented new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the inventionis to provide a fastening device of the buckle type suitable for 'rain coats and other like heavy outer garments and for over-alls, blouses, suit cases and the like, which may be used where an overlapping of the adjacent edges of the garment or closure is desired, and of such a construction as to permit of engagement and disengagement by one hand even though encased in a heavy glove; and with this object in view the invention consists in a construction and combination of parts of which a preferred embodiment is shown in the accompanying drawings, wherein Figure 1 is a view of a buckle embodying the invention applied in the operative position to a garment or cover, the parts being shown in the engaged relation.

Figure 2 is a longitudinal sectional view of the buckle with the parts united.

Figures 3 and 4 are views respectively of the blanks from which the parts or members of the buckle are formed.

The buckle consists essentially of the male and female or tongue and sleeve members 10 and 11 of which the former is provided with an attaching ear 12 from which the tongue 13 is offset to form a shoulder 14, said tongue being provided with a terminal transverse slot or opening 15. The attaching ear is provided with an opening suitable for the reception of a rivet 16 or its equivalent.

The sleeve member consists of a cross sectionally rectangular sleeve 17 having a terminal attaching ear 18 and a reinforcing plate 19 disposed in practice parallel with the base of the sleeve and substantially coeXtensive therewith and provided in common with the ear 18 with an opening 20 so that a common rivet 21 serves to secure the same in place, the base and reinforcing plate lie upon opposite sides of the plane of the interposed fabric or flap 22 to which the buckle is attached and which is adapted to be arranged in overlapping relation with that edge of the garment or closure to which the tongue ymember is attached as: will'. be

obvious by reference to Figures 1 "and 3;'.

At the inner end'of the sleeve and project# ing vfrom the front wall thereof'is a lug 23' invading vthe path of an object such y*as the tongue inpassing through the/sleeve and i designed to engage the opening 15 in the end of theV tongue- Also carried'by and housed within the sleeve is a spring finger 24 which serves to impel the tongue 13 to# ward the front wall of the sleeve to insure the engagement of the opening 15 inthe end thereof with the lug 23 as the tongueV is pressed into the sleeve and moved longitudinally thereof. To disengage thetongue from the lug it is only necessary to press the free end of the tongue toward the rear wall or base of the sleeve and thus deflect the spring finger sufficiently to allow the members of the buckle to be drawn apart.

The sleeve member of the buckle is preferably constructed from a single blank of sheet metal or its Vequivalent which as shown in Figure 3 embodies the main strip a which is adapted to be doubled upon itself longitudinally to form the base of the sleeve and the reinforcing plate 19 to lie upon opposite sides of the fabric or article to which the buckle is attached, said main strip being slitted at Z) to provide a spring finger 24, and projecting from the side edge of said main strip is a wing 0 terminating ina leaf a? so that when the wing is doubled upon itself to form the edge and front walls ofV `attach said member to the garment or article in connection with which it is to be used.

Having described the invention, what is claimed as new and useful is 1. A buckle having complemental members of which one is provided with a tongue having a terminal opening and the other is provided with a sleeve for the reception of said tongue and carries a lug for engagement with the opening in said tongue, said sleeve member consisting of a. folded blank having a main strip foldable longitudinally to lie in Contact with opposite surfaces of an interposed obj eet and a lateral Wing for trans verse folding with relation to said strip to form the sleeve.

2.r A. 'buckle having oomplemental members of which one is provided With a tongue having a terminal opening and the other is provided with a. sleeve for the reception of said tongue and carries a lug for engagement with theopening in said tongue, said sleeve-V member consisting of a folded blank having a main strip foldable longitudinally to'lie in Contact with opposite surfaces of an' interposed object-and a lateral Wing for transverse folding with relation to said strip to form the sleeve, said Wing being provided with a terminal leaf for arrangement between and in (io-extensive relation With the terminally vfolded portion of the main strip.

sleeve member consisting of a folded blank having a, main strip- .foldable longitudinallyr to lie in Contact with opposite surfaces of an interposed object and a lateral Wing forA transverse folding with relation tosaidstrip to form the sleeve, said main strip being slitted to provide a springfinger for arrangement vvithin the folded sleeve.

In testimony whereof they afX their signatures.

STANLEY k. REDDING. oiavn4 v. LANTis. 

